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As noted previously, the only weather sensor approved by the FAA on
the Belfort Instruments Digiwx AWOS weather station is the barometer
setting. ALL remaining weather instruments (wind direction, wind
speed, temperature, dewpoint, relative humidity, visibility,
ceilometer, density altitude, condensation altitude) are all
"advisory" weather sensors. According to the FAA, "Advisory Use ONLY"
means not for actual in-flight aviation use.

And only one Belfort Instruments Digiwx AWOS installation in
Greenville, IL has been commissioned by the FAA as an official weahter
source for actual in-flight aviation use. The other 30-40 belfort
Instruments Digiwx AWOS field installations are NOT FAA commissioned
which means they spew un-official advsiory weather information

One needs to look to: FAA Advisory Circular 150/5220-16C in Chapter 2
titled "Certification and Commissioning Process" to see the steps that
Belfort Instruments Digiwx AWOS WILLFULLY and INTENTIONALLY bypasses
to get their inferior AWOS (Almost Weather Observation System) out
into the U.S. marketplace.

Most pilots don't know the difference between an FAA Approved, an FAA
Certified nor an FAA Commissioned AWOS. And most pilots would just
assume that all weather sensors on an FAA Approved AWOS are
"commissioned" when they're really not. And you won't find Belfort
Instruments Digiwx AWOS making note of this distinction either because
they wouldn't sell any more Digiwx AWOS systems if the airports owners
and operators really knew what an inferior piece of aviation weather
SHIT they're getting if and when they decided to purchase a Belfort
Instruments Digiwx AWOS.

About Belfort Instrument Company

Belfort used to be a leading provider of weather instruments to the
government, professional meteorology and aviation markets. Key words:
"use to be." They never provided any wind sensors to the Wright
Brothers despite their fantastic assertion that they did! Historical
archives available at the U.S. Air Force National Museum (1100 Spaatz
Street, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433) tells a very different story
and specifically mentions a "Richards" anemometer which Wilbur Wright
held as pictured at: http://www.exn.ca/FlightDeck/Aviators/wright3.cfm.
The Belfort aerovane wind system on U.S. Naval aircraft carriers are
currently being replaced with ultrasonic wind sensors from QPI (11207
Single Oak Road, Fredericksburg, VA 22407) which just won a $94
million dollar contract for the Moriah Wind System. Belfort wind speed
and direction anemometers found on the ASOS platform are now being
replaced with ultrasonic sensors from the Vaisala Group. Belfort
Instruments Model 6000 visibility sensor will no longer be a part of
the U.S. Air Force's OS-21/FSB program come early 2007. And despite a
$500,000 U.S. government grant from NASA's Small Aircraft
Transportation System (SATS) program in 2004 to build a low-cost
ceilometer, Belfort didn't possess the technical smarts nor the
engineering know-how to accomplish the task. So now they're importing
the Eliasson CBME 80A laser ceilometer from Muir Matheson. As one can
readily see, Belfort is no longer setting any standards of measurement
in the weather instrumentation world. And now Belfort is propagating
lie after lie about their fabled company history while trying to steal
thunder from the accomplishments of the Wright Brothers. According to
the National Museum of American History (12th Street and Constitution
Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20560), Belfort founder Julian Friez
never made it to Baltimore to set up shop until sometime in the 1890s
even though Belfort officials fradulently claim the company was
founded in 1876. Thus, there was no 125th anniversary for Belfort to
celebrate in 2001 even though they hosted a party to which no one
came! Belfort's proclamation that it is the "Oldest Weather Company in
the World" is simply yet another Belfort lie as Thomas Romney Robinson
invented the first wind anemometer in 1846, six years before Julian
Friez was born in 1852. Belfort doesn't even know it's own company
history so they just make it up! You should wonder what other crap
(eg. Digiwx AWOS) they also make up! For more information about
Belfort Instrument and DigiWx, visit dogsh*t.com